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'Would Kasab have got bail too?' Centre’s explosive question to Supreme Court during heated UAPA debateThe Centre questioned the Supreme Court of India over whether prolonged delays in trials should automatically result in bail for those accu...
SC grants interim bail to two Delhi riots accused, refers question of law to larger benchThe Delhi Police has sought reference of the question of law to a larger bench on whether prolonged incarceration and delay in trial can ov...
Bail’s a given, until proven otherwiseThe Supreme Court has expressed serious reservations about denying bail in the Delhi riots conspiracy case. A two-judge bench emphasized th...
Delhi riots 2020: High Court grants bail to Salim Malik in UAPA caseThe Delhi High Court has granted bail to Salim Malik, an accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case facing charges under the Unlawful Activities ...
2020 Delhi riots: Court rejects Umar Khalid's bail plea to care for ailing motherUmar Khalid bail: A Delhi court has turned down the interim bail application of activist Umar Khalid, who sought permission to partake in h...
Pakistan-linked terror conspiracy case: NIA files report against five juvenilesThe National Investigation Agency has filed a report on five juveniles involved in a Pakistan-linked terror plot. The plot aimed to spy on ...
SC grants bail to UAPA narco-terror accused: bail is the rule and jail an exception even in UAPA casesThe Supreme Court has granted bail to Syed Iftikhar Andrabi, who was embroiled in a narco-terrorism case. The court underscored the fundame...
Riots 2020: HC dismisses Delhi Police appeal against bail to Ishrat JahanThe Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court's decision to grant bail to former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan in connection with the 20...
2006 Malegaon blasts case reached dead end: High Court; raps NIA for overlooking evidenceThe Bombay High Court has discharged four individuals in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case. The court found insufficient evidence to proceed wi...
Centre seeks to attach funds linked to Abdul Rehman MakkiLashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief of political affairs, Makki, was arrested in 2019 by the Pakistan government and sentenced to prison in 2020. H...
SC judge says anti-terror laws must not be used to quell dissentJustice Chandrachud was speaking on Monday at a conference organised by the American Bar Association with the Society of Indian law firms a...
The process cannot be the punishmentA bad law is defined by its inability to do the job it was enacted to do, and the injustice it doles out to the possibly innocent. UAPA fai...
Redrawing list: 44 state and central nodal officers named to monitor UAPA casesAmong the regulatory authorities— RBI, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDA), Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI...
Government plans to amend NIA Act, UAPAThe need to give more powers to the NIA to probe terror cases have come up after multiple terrorist attacks took place on Indian missions i...
No automatic denial of bail for terror accused: Law panelThe panel has warned that "mere classification of an act as an act of terrorism should not result in the automatic denial of bail or revers...
Scrapping of 66A: Govt can still use UAP Act to go after posts that fan terror, hatredThe home ministry feels scrapping of Section 66A of IT Act will have little effect on the capability of law enforcement agencies in dealing...
- No need for Pota-style laws
The renewed clamour for strong anti-terror laws, in the wake of the Delhi bombings, may appear appealing. But a rational rather than emotio...